Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
I can see a plausible way for us to "break off from known factions", in that the Scions have generally (I want to say always, but I'm sure someone will bring up some stuff I've forgotten) followed what the "common people" want, after calm and reasoned consideration (eg not bloodthirsty mobs calling for death to all dragons).
That 'after consideration' is a fairly big asterisk, because it generally turns this read into 'they do what the common people want unless the common people are wrong'. But you are mostly right, the exceptions so far have been:

-Ishgard (as you mentioned)
-Eulmore (Scions basically left them alone until Vauthry forced their hand)
-Garlemald (Complicated, but they largely abide by Garlemald's wish to be left alone outside of Tower of Babil stuff)

However, I'll point out that the situation we're looking at is, from all the evidence we have, how Tural selects its leader. If so, we're effectively looking at an entire expansion of the Nadaam. I know people who are already a bit shifty on what we did there since our influence was basically the combat-trial equivalent of election tampering, but us throwing in with a particular side, especially on request, would at least be within their society's accepted boundaries. Deciding to completely overturn the whole process because we've decided that Everyone Is Bad Actually? Yeah, that's probably a bad look.

Especially because I refuse to imagine Wuk Lamat ever being wrong